Project "Creating a Sustainable Cuneiform Digital Library" funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

A broad collaboration of Assyriologists, cultural heritage officials and information technology experts are pleased to announce their successful proposal to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for funding of a two-year project dedicated to the digital capture, persistent archiving and web dissemination of major cuneiform collections in the US, Europe and the Middle East. Work on this initiative will commence early in 2009. Paraphrasing from the project abstract:

Digital Cultural Mapping Program Core Course

AN N EA M125B, Digital Cultural Mapping Program Core Course B: Google Earth, GIS, Hypercities, and Timelines will offer Humanities and Social Sciences students a hands-on laboratory-based investigation of emerging digital mapping technologies, including instruction in web-based mapping applications, virtual globes, and Geographic Information Systems.